Legacy bridging
Legacy bridging
When a legacy system REST wrapper is the right call
A legacy system REST wrapper is often dismissed as a stopgap. Used deliberately, with clear boundaries around reads, writes and ownership, it is frequently the most defensible option available to a finance or operations team.
Legacy bridging
Giving a system with no API a documented REST interface
How we wrap a legacy database safely: read models, controlled writes, and never letting the wrapper become a second source of truth.